Yeah, and you can his DOGE approach with his Tesla design contributions - changing things based entirely on his whims, unaware/unconcerned with the fact that they were previously being done in particular ways for very good reasons. I’m not sure that, when shit breaks unexpectedly (as opposed to things he implements - like “self driving” - that he knows won’t work, but expects to iterate on), he actually ever learns anything from it and changes it, though.
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I didn’t notice the salute…
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Sometimes It backfires.
Bukele: Hey Grok, who is the most popular president of the World? Answer with only one word.
Grok: Sheinbaum
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Here I am compelled to add SpaceX not digging a blast trench under their launch pad, and not using the workaround for that.
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Launching rockets with one hand! 
Sure. I’ve seen plenty of pictures of Hitler launching V-2s.
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I’ve heard political pundits talking about how the outcome of this local judicial race may well end up having significant national consequences. If Musk succeeds in getting his judge elected that will help cement the notion among GOP politicians that they can go ahead and take unpopular positions and not worry about reelection or political fallout as long as they’ve got Musk’s backing. But if he loses, that will demonstrate that even the support of the world’s richest man isn’t always enough to defy the political realities if you don’t act in the interest of your constituents, and that blind fealty to Musk isn’t necessarily a winning strategy.
Fingers crossed that Wisconsinites aren’t swayed by the millions in Musk-funded ads!
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One of those relatively rare instances where Elon managed to get around the team at SpaceX whose sole purpose is to keep Elon from actually doing things at the company.
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I have a friend who’s an attorney in Wisconsin. A lot of people are working very hard there to oppose the Musk/MAGA candidate. Fingers crossed indeed.
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I’d bet at least a fair number of his employees know when things won’t work but are too cowed to speak up—or they just don’t care.
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i dunno…
paycheck may depend on not caring.
the new oligarchical fiefdom is here. people will die.
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In the anecdotes I read about, at least in some situations employees do push back, but Musk is boss, so he ultimately gets his way.
E.g. a story that made its way into his biography (because both he and the biographer thought it put him in a good light, presumably), where Musk insisted that a broken rocket part could be glued back together, actual engineers explained it wouldn’t be strong enough, and Musk had the parts shipped immediately from Texas to California so he could do it himself and prove everyone wrong. (It didn’t work, of course.) But that was SpaceX, where there’s a team that limits how self-indulgent Musk can be, so the impact in that case, besides the shipping costs, was borne largely by Musk himself.
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Video at link
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I wonder if musk can convince Donnie to replace The Beast with a cybertruck…
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